Alexander State Forest is located in Rapides Parish, Louisiana near the town of Woodworth.

It contains the Indian Creek Recreation Area and the Alexander State Forest Headquarters Building, constructed in 1935, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

[3] In the following 15 years, Louisiana made nine more purchases, bringing the total acreage of Alexander State Forest to 7,995 acres.

In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) started extensive planting of pine trees and continued to do so until 1940.

Alexander State Forest is managed by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry under the multiple use concept.

[3] Different uses include recreation, timber production, forest management research, wildlife habitats for threatened species and water and soil conservation.

This includes hunting, fishing, boating, swimming, picnics and camping at Indian Creek Recreation Area.

A 1994 study in Alexander State Forest by Robert B. Ferguson and V. Clark Baldwin Jr. examined the effects of spacing in slash pine trees that had not been thinned.

A 2005 graduate thesis by Jamie Schexnayder describes the effects of thinning on the yield of lumber for a plot of land in Alexander State Forest.

A 2008 thesis by Laura M. Palasz studied how burning affected the Henslow's sparrow population and their habitat.

Alexander State Forest provides habitat for a number of different plant and animal species, some of which are threatened or near-threatened.